Bodega Bay

Michael Bay will remake Hitchcock's ''The Birds.'' The producer-director will do for the 1963 horror classic what he did for ''Amityville Horror'' and ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' by Gary Susman

Wearing his producer hat, director Michael Bay (Armageddon) has overseen recent remakes of such venerable low-budget horror movies as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror, but now, he's going after a prestige project: a remake of Alfred Hitchchock's The Birds. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bay is in talks to produce the Universal remake. The new movie would return to the Daphne Du Maurier short story that was the source of Hitchcock's 1963 film, in which thousands of birds mysteriously attack the residents of the seaside California town of Bodega Bay.

Hitchcock remakes have become increasingly common in recent years, with Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, Christopher Reeve's TV version of Rear Window, and the Michael Douglas-Gwyneth Paltrow film A Perfect Murder, an update of Dial M for Murder. According to the Reporter, Warner Bros. is developing a new version of Strangers on a Train. Note to Hollywood: Keep your paws off Vertigo; you'll only mess it up.
(Posted:04/26/05)

from ew.com

They fade in and out with the rhythms of the scene, and sometimes they go behind things. The vampire "call" subtitles are red and fade into blood when they disappear. Stuff like that.

Occasionally the subtitles will be on a big card carried by a monkey on rollerskates.

I don't care what the movie is about, I'd pay just to see that.

from ew.com

Well, that's appropriate, since my response was "Ew!".

The man must be stopped.

The new movie would return to the Daphne Du Maurier short story that was the source of Hitchcock's 1963 film, in which thousands of birds mysteriously attack the residents of the seaside California town of Bodega Bay.

Also, this is a blatant contradiction, since the orignal story is set in England (Cornwall, I think).

Gawd I hate Michael Bay.

The vampire "call" subtitles are red and fade into blood when they disappear. Stuff like that.

Oooo, neat. Thanks.

this is a blatant contradiction

It's sloppy writing, but I think the author meant "in which" to refer to the film, not the story. Either way, I do not think this was a necessary remake.

It's sloppy writing, but I think the author meant "in which" to refer to the film, not the story. Either way, I do not think this was a necessary remake.

Well, it sounds like they are calling the film "Bodega Bay" (did Michael need his name IN the title as well as before it, or something?), so it doesn't sound like they are going back to the original, at least in terms of setting.

Also, the orignal story, if I remember correctly, was more of a mood piece than anything else, which is why Hitchcock basically had a script written up from scratch based on basically just the premise of birds attacking.

Michael Bay will remake Hitchcock's ''The Birds.'' The producer-director will do for the 1963 horror classic what he did for ''Amityville Horror'' and ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre''

That would be - shit all over it?